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Shocks of lightning split a cloud formation over Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. Tanzania's neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is home to the world's most lightning-pelted region, which, according to NASA, absorbs 158 thunderbolts per square kilometer (0.4 square miles) every year. Photograph by Michael K. Nichols